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US
postal - Philatelic Research
Study
guide:
The US 1851-57, 3¢ Washington Issue
(book by jpcohen)
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US postal - Freaks & Errors
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24¢
Curtiss Jenny Invert: Rare (100 known
copies)
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Curtiss
Jenny #C3a |
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Description: Mint
24¢ perforate stamp with the central image inverted; position 2,
plate number 8493.
This 24¢ stamp represents plate position 2
from the top row of the only sheet of one hundred Inverted Jennys sold
by the Post Office Department. The bicolor stamp was printed from two
printing plates, one for the carmine-colored stamp frame and one for
the blue vignette. The printing error resulted from either a misfed
sheet or the misorientation of one of the plates.
Harry L. Jefferys bequeathed this stamp with
his collection to Philadelphia's Franklin Institute in 1948. The
Smithsonian's National Postal Museum received the Jefferys collection
from the Franklin Institute in 2008.
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Description:
Mint 24¢ perforate stamp with the
central image inverted; position 70, plate number 8493. This 24¢
stamp represents plate position 70 of the only sheet of 100 inverted
Jennys sold by the Post Office Department. Because the bicolor stamp
was printed from two printing plates (one for the carmine-colored
stamp frame, one for the blue vignette), the error resulted from the
misfeeding of sheets or the misorientation of one of the plates.
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Curtiss
Jenny #C3a |
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Front |
Back |
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Scott
Catalogue USA: C3a
Date:
May 13, 1918
Medium: paper; ink (carmine rose and blue)/ engraving;
adhesive
Dimensions:
Museum ID: 0.217665.1
Place: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Collection: National Postal Museum (SI) (a
Smithsonian Institution museum)
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Printing
process: proofs
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Frame: |
Vignette: |
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The stamps shown on this page are owned by the
US public as part of the National Postal Museum, a Smithsonian Institution museum, is located
in the old Post Office building next to Union Station in Washington,
D.C. The Museum was created by an agreement between the Smithsonian
Institution and the United States Postal Service in 1990 and opened to
the public in 1993.
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| About
the plane - The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" is a series of biplane aircraft built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. The Curtiss JN series (the common nickname was derived from "JN") was produced as a training aircraft for the U.S. Army although the "Jenny" became the "backbone of American post-war aviation." |
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JPCohen - 3¢
1847 stamp project:
We
continue Dr. Chase's work on the 1847 3¢ Washington stamp;
offering a fresh look at this important US postal issue. This is
perhaps the most collected US stamp ever issued. Currently we have
over 3000 reference items in our research library, our goal is to
make them available here at this site. We have two plate
references in progress plate 2 and 3, if you have any singles from
these plates contact us today, we would like to consider an
acquisition or your gift in kind.
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